COLUMBUS, OHIO – Three key leaders
representing supply chain, client sales, and support and marketing/brand
development have been promoted to the position of senior vice president by
Belron US, a vehicle glass repair and replacement company.
Dino
Lanno, Pete Pearson, and Mark Placenti have earned positions on the
eight-member Belron US senior leadership team, which helps guide the overall
direction of the company and will respectively each lead the company’s supply
chain, client sales, and support and marketing/brand development areas.
Lanno and
Pearson both joined the company in 1989. Placenti was hired in 2005.
Lanno is
currently a member of several industry leading vehicle glass organizations and
is active in developing vehicle glass standards for the industry. He continues
to be the key face of Safelite to its strategic suppliers, building relationships
for more than 19 years.
Pearson
joined Safelite as a result of the company’s acquisition of AFG Glass where he
served as a regional manager. Prior to that, he was with A-1 Quality Glass as
general manager. His has 24 experience years in the vehicle glass industry.
Placenti
spent time before joining Safelite in both corporate and advertising agency
environments. As a key member of the Circle K management team, which led the
company out of bankruptcy, he developed a marketing/advertising program that
netted an incremental $15 million gross profit dollars over a three-year
period.
The
Belron US senior leadership team also includes Feeney, Rich Harrison, senior
vice president and chief operations officer, Doug Herron, executive vice
president and chief financial officer, Mark Smolik, senior vice president,
general counsel, and ethics officer, and a to-be-named senior vice president of
human resources.
